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Relatedly? "...an intact amygdala is necessary for feelings of discomfort following personal space violations, thus helping to automatically regulate interpersonal distance." - https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4123873/

(Also, for those curious: Space Invaders: Personal Space and Autism "...it is possible that a dysfunction in the amygdala contributes to problems in maintaining an appropriate social distance in autism." - https://www.iancommunity.org/ssc/personal-space-autism)

Maybe? How concerned is the bulk of their potential customer base aware of any goings on in the leadership of the company? What is the latest developments at the C-level of the company who supplied your canned corn or bike tires?

After about 16 years of on-site work (at various jobs), I did almost 5 years of remote work (for a single company), having just recently returned to an in-office role (despite focusing on landing another remote position, the best opportunity wasn’t.)

And, frankly, I find neither inherently, categorically superior. It has far more to do with a number of unique variables, among them: culture, software tools, and the people themselves.

So while I do largely agree with the core argument of the linked post (roughly summarized: asynchronous communication helps facilitate productivity for knowledge workers), I also feel too much emphasis is placed on working remotely as inherent in part of the solution.

How about we just teach and incentivize people to, for example, not interrupt others unnecessarily, how to recognize when someone may be deeply focused on a task, how to indicate such an effort is currently underway, plus to recognize when it may be appropriate, necessary, and healthy to stop the “deep work“ and address communal, biological, and psychological needs? All regardless of the exact mode of the work.

Having worked from home when only a partner OR 2 kids were present, I can only imagine the additional pressure faced by that situation.

But speaking as a single parent of school-aged kids, summer vacation is... a challenge.

> "I worked at [physically-demanding job] for $n/hr [where n≤other person's/current minimum wage] and I didn't [complain/think it was that bad/die], so what is the problem?"

The problem with this is:

1) In the absence of any addl. context, it's a poor means of objectively determining employee well-being.

All else being equal, shouldn't "we" (humans, as a species) be using an ever-increasing bar of basic well-being in context to historical norms and improvements as the measure?

Besides, there's any number of factors that influence what is "reasonable" (regional cost of living, changes to inflation/buying power, an individual's capacity to work, etc.)

2) People can simultaneously feel grateful AND discouraged in their current circumstances. To be glad you have a job and to feel stung by two generations of stalled economic mobility are not mutually exclusive emotions.

3) Both sides can experience entirely sincere feelings of "rightness". That does not prove, deny, or change any underlying facts.

4) Being (AKA feeling) "right" bears little or no benefit to anyone. It means a temporary rush of dopamine and adrenaline. No ones life has usually been materially improved by that event.

A discovered one mistake I'd made was not starting with socks. Once I purchased my first pair of wool blend socks, I felt the same as you.

I've personally come to feel cotton is vastly over-rated as a clothing material for anything but cost-saving goals (which certainly is an important factor.) Of course there's the old adage "Cotton Kills", referring to cold weather, but it's also miserably subpar for hot conditions for some of the same reasons: as it absorbs sweat the fibers swell and reduce the fabric's breathability, leading to increased body heat retention. You may be inclined to think a wet fabric aids in cooling but that effect is short lived once evaporation can't keep up with the addition of more perspiration and air movement slows to almost none. And that's before we even get into the resulting bacterial overgrowth, AKA body odor, for which cotton is notoriously awful at mitigating.

So, anyhow, if you have the time, means, and inclination, I highly recommend looking at newer fabric alternatives like lyocell (typically found as the branded names of Tencel, Modal, or Viscose).

And you should always consider merino wool and hemp, which are most often found combined with a synthetic or two, typically for improved elasticity and shape retention, but also for increased comfort since they are both not historically known for their softness. Wool is in many ways the holy grail of fabrics (for reasons which you can find in fantastic detail online) and the relatively new variant of merino only improves on a well-earned reputation. Whereas hemp, despite reigning as the indisputable champion of strength and durability for literally thousands of years in non-clothing applications, has recently seen a resurgence thanks to various factors, notably improvements in comfort. (That said, my personal experience with hemp clothing has shown that it still leaves something to be desired in the area of real world durability, from the perspective of the several various pieces of clothing I've owned--mostly shirts, plus a couple pants--starting in the late 1990s and purchased as recently as 2019.)

That person probably got testy because they were being treated so poorly.

I don’t think I saw any validation of a reasonable concern—which is like customer service 101—let alone any type of attempt to win the user (back) over. This is classic, stereotypical techie behavior and it needs to die. And I say that as a developer (who has been plenty guilty of this tendency myself…)

> the designer of the iMac, iPod, iPhone, iPad, Macbook

can also be

> degrading the company [paraphrase since the parent has now been flagged]

They're not mutually exclusive.

There's a strong argument that form has undone the function of some of Apple's hardware.

Success in no way precludes the possibility of bad decisions.

(That got me thinking of another potentially interesting analysis/discussion about the distribution of jQuery versions being used…)

So now we're gamifying gentrification and incentivizing the idea of covering the earth with human constructions? (It's certainly arguable, but at least Pokemon Go encourages physical activity and social interaction.)

Yes, I know I'm being reactionary but this just feels wrong, not to mention a misguided application of the Minecraft concept. Is this is the best they could do? Is this really all we can expect of AR at this stage?

However, let’s be frank and acknowledge that this is not at all a new phenomenon—kids have been made fun of for their clothes, shoes, lunches, haircuts, age, ad nauseam. There’s little (white) punks of single digit age dropping the n-word in public parks.

Kids can be straight up cruel. Pointing at video games or music or whatever the scapegoat du jour is mostly unproductive.

On a serious note though:

• 2017: “Huge Human Inequality Study Hints Revolution is in Store for U.S.” https://www.inverse.com/article/38457-inequality-study-natur...

• 2015: “PAUL TUDOR JONES: Income inequality will end in revolution, taxes, or war” https://www.businessinsider.com/paul-tudor-jones-on-inequali...

• 2013: “History tells us where the wealth gap leads” https://aeon.co/essays/history-tells-us-where-the-wealth-gap...

From '08-'10, I was in web design & development at a company that was neck-deep in IE6 dependency. The animus I harbored for IE6 was so intensely palpable that there were days where I was mere moments from getting a tattoo permanently documenting my burning hate for what I still reckon as the worst piece of software ever known, based on reach, potential for issues caused, and total net effort expended on all mitigations.

At some point, I came to the realization that my fundamentally poor concept of time was always going to be an insurmountable obstacle to my career advancement.

In other words, we seem to have arrived at a stage where vapidity is not only tolerated or accepted but encouraged, lauded, and rewarded.

Thus an entire economy has been built atop of an “influencer” cargo cult (and too few seem at all concerned about it.)

Frankly, the sudden price sensitivity seems odd. Is there something else going on?

> With the work I do on photo/video editing and my love for flight simulators...

Aye, there’s the rub.

> Another reason to bail is the expense in repairs, particularly living in a country where there is no official Apple store. Apple has these machines made so that if something breaks you are basically fucked and the only choice is to take it to get repaired.

Probably the strongest objective statement in the whole post. Until…

> If things break on the custom build I am working on then I can easily fix without it costing me a fortune.

Except the total cost (price+time) of replacements in a custom build can go UP after just 2–4 years if you didn’t buy into the latest spec for a given component, undercutting the value argument.

> Apple once catered to creatives and when I first used a Mac I was amazed by the creative tool suite they had.

Additionally, the rest of that paragraph is, contextually, a strawman. ———- I’ve worked on both OSes for 20+ years (graphic design, photo editing, video editing, web development.) Microsoft has closed the gap. So, unfortunately, has Apple. But the view that Windows 10 has changed the game is myopic. Bottom line, the whole Mac vs. PC thing has been tired for well over a decade.

The way I think of it is similar to the idea in photography that a great photographer doesn’t require expensive equipment to produce great photographs.

Choose the best tools for your craft that you can afford and be deliberate in making the best possible use of them.

Frankly the user experience for their app has needed help for at least a couple years.

Same. Painful, expensive lesson that I own up to for my part (mostly, blissful ignorance…)

It dredged back up the insecurities and feelings of personal and professional failure in the aftemath of the financial crisis from watching my home value being decimated and small businesses tanking, those being the bread and butter of my growing freelance design & development.

All the time, financial, and emotional investments completely sunk while watching the rich, entitled Wall St set have their billions of dollars in gambling debts paid off with my tax dollars.

(And then to come to the realization that I probably had that home to begin with largely thanks to the real estate gambles they were making back in ‘02…)

Two words: plausible deniability.

Also see: dog and pony show.

This was a performance for the various constituencies that will, save for a few minor exceptions, prove to be ultimately a toothless exercise.

Admittedly, I was working from anecdotal evidence off the top of my head (e.g., banners on fast food chains proclaiming “starting at $XX/hr”) and not hard data.

Personally I believe paying less than livable wages is criminal in most instances.